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  1. Cracks in the Tinsel Closet: Genderbending in Bombay Films

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Chadwa, Anruddh
    Date: Jan. 1996
    Topics: Indian LGBTQ+ people, Motion picture industry--India--Mumbai, Performance art, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people
    Description: An article about the history of queerness in Bollywood cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s.

  2. Entering the Third Dimension?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Chadwa, Anruddh
    Date: Apr. 1996
    Topics: Hijras, Indian LGBTQ+ people, Motion picture industry--India--Mumbai, Performance art, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people
    Description: An article discussing three films (Daayra, Darminyaan, and Tamanna) that the author believes marked a turning point in how Bollywood portrays transgender people.

  3. Hermaphrodites with Attitude (Fall/Winter, 1995-1996)

     
    Collection: Hermaphrodites with Attitude
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)
    Date: Winter 1996
    Topics: Acceptance, Arab LGBTQ+ people, Arab transgender people, Autonomy, Clitoris, Gender identity, Hijras, Hypospadias, Indian LGBTQ+ people, Indian transgender people, Intersex, Intersex people, Khaniths, Medicine, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Native American transgender people, Normalization, Parenthood, Philosophy of science, Research, South Asian LGBTQ+ people, South Asian transgender people, Surgery
    Subject: ALIAS, Buffalo Children's Hospital, David Sandberg, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, John Money, Johns Hopkins Hospital

  4. "I'm not able to call you a he"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Kripal, Jeffery
    Date: Jul. 1996
    Topics: Hindu gods, Indian LGBTQ+ people, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people, Spirituality
    Subject: Ramakrishnna Paramhamsa
    Description: An excerpt from the book Kali's Child- the Mystical and the Erotic in the Teachings of Ramakrishanna.

  5. "What Sort of Beast Was I?" Thinking Beyond Gender in India

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Vanita, Ruth
    Date: Oct. 1997
    Topics: Ashrams, Hijras, Indian LGBTQ+ people, Non-Euro-American gender and sexual identities, QTPOC, South Asian LGBTQ+ people, Vārkarī sect, Women authors, South Asian, Women's movement
    Description: This article discusses how Indian society creates narratives for opting out of gender categories, of non-victimhood, and of alliances across identity boundaries. It is excerpted from a longer essay...